Lot 1389: HUANG YAN

HUANG YAN
(B. 1966)
Chinese Landscape - Tattoo No. 8; & Chinese Landscape - Tattoo No. 4
No. 8: titled and signed in Chinese; numbered '12/12'; dated '1999' (lower right)
two digital prints
each: 78 x 112 cm. (30 3/4 x 44 in.) (2)
Executed in 1999 (2)

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China (travelling exhibition), New York, USA, International Center of Photography, (2004); Chicago, USA, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art (2005); Seattle, USA, Seattle Art Museum (2005), London, UK, Victorian and Albert Museum (2006); Berlin, Germany, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2006); Santa Barbara, USA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (2006) (different edition of one work exhibited).China, Hong Kong, Hanart TZ Gallery; Shanghai, China, Eastlink Gallery, Mountains and Water Spirit, 2004.
Milan, Italy, Palazzo Reale, Cina: Rinascita Contemporanea, 11 December 2009-7 February 2010.

Other examples exhibited
Bari, Italy, Chiesa Santa Teresa Dei Maschi, Dialogue - The Other, 2001-2002.
Chengdu, China, Changdu Museum of Modern Art, The First Chengdu Biennale,15 December 2001-15 January 2002.
Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Art Museum, The First Guangzhou Triennale. Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1900-2000), 18 November 2002-19 January 2003.
Milan, Italy, Spazio Consolo, Out of the Red. Art China Now, 2003. Paris, France, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris-Pekin, 5-28 October 2002.
Paris, France, Galerie Enrico Navarra, A Strange Heaven: Contemporary Chinese Photography, 2003.
Prague, Czech Republic, National Gallery Veletrzni Palace, Prague Biennale 1, 26 June-24 August 2003.
Prague, Czech Republic, Galerie Rudolfinum, A Strange Heaven. Contemporary Chinese Photography, 4 September-29 November 2003.
Bologna, Italy, Galleria d'Arte Moderna; Cesena, Italy, Galleria Comunale d'Arte; Rimini, Italy, Palazzo dell'Arengo, Officine Asia. Rete Emilia Romagna, 2004.
Milan, Italy, Spazio Oberdan, La Cina: Prospettive d'Arte Contemporanea, 28 June-16 October 2004.
Helsinki, Finland, Tennis Palace Art Museum, A Strange Heaven: Contemporary Chinese Photography, 22 June-28 August 2005.
Tel Hai, Israel, Israel Museum of Photography, Living in Interesting Times: A Decade of New Chinese Photography, 2005.
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, Artium. Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte
Contemporaneo, Zhu Yi! Fotografia Actual en China, 15 March-23 September 2007.
Barcelona, Spain, Palau de la Verreina Barcelona, Zhu Yi! Fotografia Actual en China, 20 February-4 May 2008.

Skira, Modernites Chinoises, Paris, France, 2003 (illustrated, plates 103-104, pp. 116-117).
Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, Chinese Avant-Garde Photography Since 1990, Hunan, China, 2004 (Chinese Landscape - Tattoo No. 8 illustrated, p. 254).
Hanart TZ Gallery, Mountains and Water Spirit, Hong Kong, China, 2004 (illustrated, p. 7).
Richard Vine, Prestel Publishing, New China New Art, Munich, London & New York, 2008 (illustrated, p. 147).
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Chicago, USA, 2004 (Chinese Landscape - Tattoo No. 8 illustrated, plate 108).
24 Ore Motta Cultura and Palazzo Reale, Cina: Rinascita Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 2009 (illustrated, p. 138).

Other examples illustrated
Zhao Shulin, Chiesa Santa Teresa dei Taschi, Dialogue -The Other, Bari, Italy, 2001 (illustrated, p. 14).
Damiani Editore, Out of the Red. The New Emerging Generation of Chinese Photographers, Bologna, Italy 2004 (illustrated, p. 60).

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner